To be available to download those rpm packets you have also to sign in into the Oracle website.

Next step is to install alien on your distribution.
From the man page "alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats. If you want to use a package from another linux distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it."

ubuntu@ubuntu-VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt-get install alien

Then go to your download directory and list the available rpm packets.

sqlplus complains about missing libraries. You can solve creating/editing the oracle.conf file issuing the following command and simply adding a line (the path where were installed all the libraries of the Instant Client packages: /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client/lib):

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I did exactly the same but at the end, it asks for username and password. Since no password is given during installation, WHAT is my username and password? Can I reset password using commandline? HELP please!